Yan Pei Ming’s work profoundly questions classical painting while paying homage to the great masters. Portrait de Gustave Courbet (2019) is part of a new series of works dedicated to the realist painter, commemorating the 200th anniversary of his birth. | Georg Baselitz’s wife Elke has been the artist’s muse throughout his career. In Im Takt, aber leise (2019) the figure of Elke appears twice as a blackhole in the painting surrounded by gold. For the artist 'It is neither a silhouette nor a shadow. It is really a blank space, like a keyhole with gold around.' | Everglade (Borealis) (1990) by Robert Rauschenberg is a key work from the Borealis series (1988–92), which demonstrates the artist’s continued spirit of innovation. Applied through the silkscreen method, the images are directly imprinted onto the brass surface, which Rauschenberg reworks with tarnishing agents to produce tonal variations across the metal. | During the 1980s, Roy Lichtenstein embarked on a new series of works which revisited, reworked and expanded some of his most celebrated motifs. In Untitled (Brushstroke Head) (1986), Lichtenstein renders the outline of a human head in a dynamic composition which combines elements of collage, juxtaposing actual and stencilled brushstrokes.